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E. B. MUNDY. TBR AND PAPER ROTARY No. 418,809. Patented Jan. 7, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUSEBIUS BAINBRIDGE MUNDY, OF HENRIETTA, TEXAS- ROTARY LETTER AND PAPER FI'LE CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,809, dated January 7, 1890. Application filed February 7, 1889. Serial No. 299,072. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it kn own that L'EUSEBIUS BAINBRIDGE MUNDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Henrietta, in the county of proved device with the doors or external casing removed. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with one section of the casing or door open and the other one closed, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation with one of the doors open. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates the file or letter case.

B indicates a base or pedestal, which is of a truncated conical form, and is adapted to receive a post or the like, which passes through an aperture in the sets of pans or, holders.

The post or staff 0, rising from the cone or conical base, passes centrally through the pans and the partitioned receptacles and has its upper end tapering, as shown in Fig. 4, where it bears on the inner side of the cap I) and in a socket therein, as shown.

D indicates pans, there being four here shown, although there may be a greater or less number, as desired. These pans are .provided with a marginal verticalflange d to prevent the displacement or loss of papers, and within the lower pan are brace-arms e, which extend diagonally from the floor of the pan to the staff or casing surrounding the same. The intermediate pans are provided with radial partitions f, which may be arranged at any suitable interval, and are designed to receive between them papers and documents of various kinds. These pans and radially-divided holders, which are arranged upon the staff, are designed to rotate thereon, so that like from the case.

access may be conveniently had to any one or more of the compartments.

D indicates the top pan, which is free from compartments, and is also designed to receive papers or other articles. top pan is a bowed bar F, which extends sufficiently above the pan for the convenient place ment of papers.

G indicates a clamp, which is here shown as composed of spiral wire, although it may be made of sheet metal or other suitable ma terial, and secured to the external bowed surface is a bar F, the coils being adapted to receive between them papers or other articles to be held.

This holder or case is inclosed by a pair of doors H,.which are of a semicircular form in cross-section, and are hinged at their adjacent longitudinal edges, as shown at L, to the revolving frame. These hinged doors, which carry a suitable fastening device, are provided with a semicircular top K, whereby when they have been closed around the sides of the revolving case the top will also be closed.

These doors are furthermore provided on their inner sides, and at a point slightly above the marginal flange of the upper pan, with a flange L, designed to overlap the said flange of the upper pan, so as to exclude dirt or the The doors are also provided at their lower edge, on theirinner side, with a similar flange M, which underlies the marginal flange of the lower pan when the doors have been closed.

This device will be found very convenient for office use, and may be cheaply manufactured from wood, sheet metal, or other suitable material.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a file-case, the combination, with a pedestal, of a staff rising therefrom, a series of revolving racks having a marginal flange and radial compartments, and a cap having a socket in its under side and bearing on the upper end of the staff, whereby the pans and racks may be freely rotated, substantially as specified. 1

2. A file-case comprising a pedestal, a staff Arranged above the rising therefrom, pans D, arranged on the staff and having radial compartments, a basepan and a top pan also arranged on the shaft, a bowed bar rising from the top pan, and a clamp secured to the upper side of said bar, and two semicircular doors carrying flanges on their inner sides and hinged to the ease so as to envelop the same, substantially as specified.

EUSEBIUS BAINBRIDGE MUNDY.

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VINCENT STINE, JOHN DANBY. 

